W Mail and associations

When are Microsoft going to fix the annoying problem that even if a file
association, for say .doc or .xls, is set correctly, and the application is
correctly installed; Windows Mail will not recognise the association for an
attachment, and the attachment has to be saved - then the association works?
Most frustrating!
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

PeteF
Please do a search in this newsgroup and find a thread authored by Jill and
Ellias. Title of thread is "Can't open *.doc attachments"
The method used to fix this problem is listed there.
Barry

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Barry W Haigh
University of Phoenix Online Faculty

"PeteF" <> wrote in message
news:7B14816E-E5B3-43A6-B127-...
> When are Microsoft going to fix the annoying problem that even if a file
> association, for say .doc or .xls, is set correctly, and the application
> is
> correctly installed; Windows Mail will not recognise the association for
> an
> attachment, and the attachment has to be saved - then the association
> works?
> Most frustrating!
> --
> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I know and it's not as though the things you are receiving aren't important!
Your'e one step ahead of me because I can't set association folders either.
Urgh humbug!
Absolutely frustrating!
"PeteF" <> wrote in message
news:7B14816E-E5B3-43A6-B127-...
> When are Microsoft going to fix the annoying problem that even if a file
> association, for say .doc or .xls, is set correctly, and the application
> is
> correctly installed; Windows Mail will not recognise the association for
> an
> attachment, and the attachment has to be saved - then the association
> works?
> Most frustrating!
> --
> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?